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No. 7 is comma, var. harrisii $, from N. J., from Dr. Strecker, 



Ehves collection. 

 No. 8 is cofnma, var. harjisii, West Va., the written pin label by W. 



H. E. 



Second row : 



No. I isfaunus, from White Mts., N. H. 



No. 2 is similar to the corresponding specimen in the first row, and 



same locality and collector. 

 No. 3 \s /annus, from N. Y., Elwes collection. 



Then there is a space of three inches. 

 No. 4 is/ainitis, and is labeled : 



Nova Scotia. 



Hewitson Coll. 



Grapta c-albuvi Linn. 



No. 5 is cotfuna, var. harrisii $ , N. J., Strecker, Ehves collection. 

 No. 6 is cotnma, var. harrisii ^ . 



Then a 2-inch space. 

 No. 7 is comma, var. dryas 9 , from Ottawa, Crowley bequest. 

 No. 8 is comma, var. d?'yas 9 , W. Va., labeled W. H. E. 

 The remainder of the drawer is filled with Grapta ifiterrogationis, 

 X3.Y. fabricii and var. iimhrosa, which are correctly arranged. 

 In the next drawer there is a label as follows : 



" After careful study of the western and Rocky Mts. forms 



and comparison with analogous varieties, sexual and climatic, in 



Europe and Asia, I cannot follow the distinctions adopted by 



Edwards and other American authors. — H. j. Elwes, Tan. 3, 



1905." 



In this drawer there are very interesting specimens, but so badlv 



mixed that I gave up in despair, as the same species sometimes stood 



under two or even three names, and there were labels on long pins stuck 



promiscuously about the drawer like Dervish standards. 



There is no typical specimen oi gracilis as found in eastern Canada 

 and the North-eastern States of the American Union in the collection, 

 which may account for Mrs. NichoU's erroneous record of that pre- 

 eminently beautiful species from Montreal. 



I have rarely examined a collection without finding at least some of 

 the Graptas misnamed. 



